At some point in the past something changed. I’ve no idea what or when and it wasn’t something I did. But now when I go to log in I get:
wordpress login Error: cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.
Logging in a second time works.
This gives me the creeps because it is identical to a particular method of stealing login credentials I worked out (and used!) when at college many years go.
Today I had the time to investigate it and, oh dear. It does depress me when I see an error has been around for years and has multiple solutions proposed. I just know it will take me hours to work it out and, no doubt, other things will break.
So, some hours later, I’ve edited the
EDIT: And now I can’t post properly either. It would not let me post the above and when I tried to retrieve it, half it it was lost.
I’ve applied updates, edited the php_config.php, updated php on the server, ensured I’m using an out-of-the-box theme, disabled plugins and done a health check. Now the site is complaining it is not using HTTPS so as well as the original problem, I now have a new one. Exactly as predicted.